Filmed on the latest HD cam 16:9 for internal studio-as-shrine-altar-awesomeness and for external digital aesthetic-estrangement-edgyness True Tale is a ravaging, psycho-voyeuristic thriller about the duplicity of kiss n tell reality-tv & soap stars real lives: contrasting hand-held p.o.v. character intimacy with the dolly-objective-studio-lit grandness of 'soap'. The cinematic brightness of inside vs the reddened inky darkness of outside - Cleo's turf, the brooding, poverty surrounded/ing city of Manchester.

Exloring ways in which we humans create all value, not god: the premises that motherhood triumphs over fatherhood in kid-battles, that blood bonds beat sex bonds in relationships and most importantly, in the corrosive, caustic and compromising postmodern media saturated city atmosphere that real-life beats soap-life.